This is pretty impressive for first-year head coach Pawel Gajdzik. NIU tennis hasn't been very successful in the past. Our best player in 2006 and 2007, two-time first team All-MAC Brian Livingston, transferred to U of Illinois.


http://www.tennisrecruiting.net/article.asp?id=765

Quote:Powerful Huskies

When we looked over the mid-major classes, one program stood out above the rest: Northern Illinois. Head coach Pawel Gajdzik has put together a five-man class with a great deal of international experience. Szymon Tatarczyk and Jurica Grubisic both have career-high ITF rankings in the top 70. Grubisic even has a win over new 2009 NCAA champion Devin Britton. Add in a couple more players with ITF rankings inside the top 250, and you get the top mid-major class. This group would have been in our Top 25 overall classes, but we did not have the full class at that time.

http://www.niuhuskies.com/sports/m-tenni...09aaa.html

Quote:The five players comprising Gajdzik's top-rated class include Croatian Jurica Grubisic, Bosnia-Herzegovina native Adnan Sose, Titov, and Polish-born Pawel Poziomski and Szymon Tatarczyk. Grubisic was a first-team All-MAC honoree in his first season in the program, and Poziomski was tabbed the league's Newcomer of the Year.

Tatarczyk and Titov will see their eligibility begin in the 2009-10 season. Tatarczyk has been ranked as high as No. 63 by the International Tennis Federation, and Titov has climbed as high as No. 205.

But can you pronounce any of their names?

Kudos to NIU. That class sounds great. Looks like the Broncos are going to have to work even harder to stay at the top.

WMU still has a better tennis program, gonna be hard to beat the broncos regardless of who you have. Dave Morin is an outstanding recruiter and coach. we are lucky to have him!

(06-13-2009 04:48 PM)WMU69 Wrote:  WMU still has a better tennis program, gonna be hard to beat the broncos regardless of who you have. Dave Morin is an outstanding recruiter and coach. we are lucky to have him!

No doubt, NIU still has a long ways to go to catch up to WMU.

when you say tennis what are you talking about? Like tennis?

Tennis?

Really?

Oh brother!

Wii Tennis????